India, Aug. 27 -- Noida Two days after the roof at a Sector-31 apartment crumbled following rain, the Noida authority has asked owners of the 128 dilapidated flats in the government-owned building to vacate their respective premises for safety, officials said on Tuesday.

To be sure, a family of five escaped, including three children, when the roof of their bedroom, weakened by years of seepage and burdened with three water tanks, collapsed on Sunday evening. The flat resident Kuldeep Kumar's family survived because of having stepped out of the room moments earlier.

The incident prompted a Noida authority's team led by deputy general manager's Vijay Rawal to inspect the apartment and found it unsafe for habitation. Officials said that po...